In 1425 the great
dome of Florence cathedral is still unfinished, but reaching a critical point
as its shell move inexorably upwards and inwards. An irascible genius,Filippo
Brunelleschi, is
in charge of the dome’s construction, watched over by his patron, the powerful
bankerCosimo de’ Medici. Young Assistant Building SupervisorLuca da Posara can’t think of anywhere else in the world that he’d
rather be: it’s the birth of the Renaissance and the very air seems alive with
fresh ideas, in science and philosophy, art and architecture.

But then he finds the body of a visiting mathematician,
brutally murdered. Papers on the corpse allege that Filippo Brunelleschi stole
his ideas. Who had him murdered? Filippo or Cosimo? Or the hot-headed sculptorDonatello, Filippo’s close friend and former apprentice? Or
was it one of their bitter artistic or political rivals, in a plot to destroy
Filippo and discredit Cosimo?In Renaissance
Florence, passion, conflict and intrigue lead to plot and counter-plot and
nothing is quite as it seems. After a second killing, of a master mason who
plunges to his death from the top of the incomplete dome, Luca feels compelled
to turn amateur detective– and
discovers it’s all a matter of perspective.Buy your paperback copy from Amazon by clicking here. Or order up the Kindle version here.